Bill O’Reilly Defends Nazis, Blames Their Crimes On Americans
Yes, that sounds like a staggering headline, but it is actually quite true.
In the ongoing effort by the Reich Wing of American politics to defend the disastrous war in Iraq and the criminal acts it betrays, they have come to this. These kooks are always trying to claim the legacy of the Second World War as some kind of analogous event to and rationale for what is happening today, but such strained and implausible efforts are now reaching the point of looking glass absurdity.
Read the transcript of Fox’s Bill O’Reilly ascribing the Malmedy massacre of December 1944 to American soldiers, and using it as a rationale for why it seems okay to him that there are massacres by American soldiers in Iraq. (Malmedy was actually a war crime where SS soldiers gunned down in cold blood American prisoners of war taken captive during the Battle of the Bulge).
Its probably also worth noting that the goal of WWII was to destroy fascism, not to strengthen it, as the current administration seems to be geared towards doing.
Fascism: The domination of a government by corporations of the political right, combined with bellicose nationalism. (American Heritage Dictionary)
on July 20th, 2006 at 7:44 am
This is sickening. I would say that it is stunning, but it isn’t. O’Reilly has shown his utter disregard for the truth and for America so frequently that it is no longer surprising. But it is sickening that a television network can allow him to continue and cover his worthless *** without being publicly, finally, and utterly condemned by journalists, elected officials, and the citizens of the nation as a whole. Can anyone imagine Eric Sevareid or Walter Cronkite behaving in such a way? Can anyone imagine them being tolerated if they had? How low our standards have fallen in this era of corporate hegemony!